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Democratic papers liave uniformly denied that it was correctly 
quoted when its sentiments did not seem to suit the popular 
taste of the day. But all doubt on this head has been at last 
removed, for the Democratic State Central Committee have 
recently published the speech, and formally adopted its senti- 
ments. This proceeding thus endorses the doctrines of that 
speech, and by the popular verdict on those doctrines its author 
must stand or fall. They are not merely the opinions of De- 
cember 1860, but of October 1863. Now look at some of 
the atrocious doctrines of that speech, as revised and approved 
by the State Committee. 

1, The Falseness of its Statements in regard to the 
Abolition of Slavery by the North. 

On page 9, Judge "WoodAvard says : " The Northern States 
sold out Slavery to the South, and they received a full equiva- 
lent." And again on page 10 : "Do you not see how good it 
was to hand over our slaves to our friends in the South ? We 
consigned them to no heathen thrall, but to Christian men," 
&c. &c. And yet, in Purdon's Digest, page 610, edition of 
1856, a book which should be more frequently in Judge Wood- 
ward's hands than any in his library, we find the Act of As- 
sembly of 29th March, 1788, third section, enacting as follows : 
" No negro or mulatto slave shall be removed out of the State 
with the design or intention that the place of abode or residence 
of such slave shall be thereby altered or changed. * * * 
And if any person or persons whatsoever shall sell or dispose 
of any such slave or servant to any person out of this State, 
or shall send or carry, or cause to be sent or carried, any such 



slave or servant out of this State for any of tlie purposes afore- 
said, &c., he shall forfeit and pay in each case the sum of 
seventy-five pounds." 

So much for Judge Woodward's truthfulness, or for his 
knowledge of the law. His friends are welcome to either horn 
of the dilemma. This infamous calumny on the Northern peo- 
ple has been reiterated by the great model of Judge Woodward, 
Jefferson Davis, who had the hardihood to assert in his inau- 
gural message that the North had sold Slavery to the South, 
and were now engaged in impeaching a title for which a large 
price had been paid. 

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2. Judge Woodward's Bible Views of Slavery. 

On page 10, he tells us, that " whoever will study the 
Patriarchal and Levitical institutions, will see the principle 
of human bondage, and of property in man divinelj sanc- 
tioned if not divinely ordained.'' 

This is not the place to discuss the alleged sanction of 
Slavery by the Bible, but since December, 1860, it may be 
well to remember, that there have been held many Conven- 
tions of the Representatives of the Great Religious Denomi- 
nations of the Country, — Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, 
Lutheran, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and others too 
numerous to mention, and that with one voice the learned 
Clergy in all these bodies, — who certainly ought to know as 
much about the "Patriarchal and Levitical institutions" as 
Judge Woodward, — have condemned the s^^stem of Slavery 
as wholly unsupported by anything in the Bible, cither Old 
or New Testament. This voice of the " universal moral con- 
science" is unheeded by Judge Woodward and his friends. 



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